Why is it that ...

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Wed Nov 29 20:14:46 2000

On Nov 29, 23:12, Tony Duell wrote:

> > > There's also a thing called a Sage II.

> I've only ever seen 2 of them. One of my mad friends (who I happened to
> be with) and I got them for a very low price...
>
> This machine has one of the best user manuals I've seen. It's got
> schematics, parts lists, etc in it. And, it's easy to repair because
> _all_ ICs, even the TTL glue, are in sockets. Apart from the EPROMs
> (which contain a machine code monitor and disk bootstrap), every chip is
> stnadard.

Yes, they're nice. I have one left -- I had four, but sold or gave the
rest away. All the ones I've seen had one DSDD 80-track 5 1/4" floppy, but
I beleive there was a hard disk option. I never had a manual, though, nor
CP/M 68K.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Wed Nov 29 2000 - 20:14:46 GMT

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